![]() Song Collector imagines the story of this remarkable act of preservation from Sidney Robertson Cowell's perspective. ONeill is regarded as one of the foremost collectors of traditional music and song. Like other blogs in the Homegrown Plus series, this one includes a concert video and a video interview with the featured performer, plus links and connections to Library of Congress collections. Many folk songs have been around for centuries, or for as long as humans have been working the land together. Cowell sometimes referred to herself as a "song collector," and I began to wonder about the life of this song collector - about the sometimes lonely and frustrating process of "chasing songs" that Cowell describes in some of her correspondences. Welcome back to Homegrown Plus We're continuing the series with Martin Carthy, one of the best known and most critically acclaimed musicians performing traditional songs in England. Yet the project felt incomplete without including the perspective of the documenter in addition to the documented, especially considering the extent to which Cowell's ambitions and ideals so deeply influenced her exhaustive ethnographic study. The first piece to grow out of my fascination with Cowell's work was Field Reports (2016), a chamber septet that weaves together re-imaginations of several folk songs from Cowell’s ambitious California Folk Song Project. ![]() These recordings present a remarkably rich depiction of Northern California at a pivotal time in American history. In 1938, Cowell secured a Works Projects Administration grant for the Northern California Folk Song Project, an undertaking that eventually produced two hundred acetate discs filled with thirty-five hours of field recordings in twelve different languages. which deals satisfactorily with the problem of the origin of folk-music. Folk dance is a type of dance which has developed by itself without aid from choreogs., is connected with traditional life, and is passed from one generation to the next.Song Collector is the second in a cycle of large-scale compositions that engage with the work of the California ethnomusicologist Sidney Robertson Cowell. A summary of the progress already made and instructions to the collector were. ![]() Scottish Folk Music in the Lowlands There are many strands to the story of Scottish folk music and Scottish traditional song. by named composers may become (indeed already have become) the folk‐songs of a new age. The distinguished American folksong collector Alan Lomax once described the Gaelic song tradition as the Flower of Western Europe. It may well be that the popular songs of the 20th cent. It is also impossible to predict how folk‐song may develop in future centuries. Like every generic term, folk‐song is susceptible to many conflicting interpretations, and readers are referred to several important books on the subject. characteristics of their country of origin, they have int. Many composers have made use of folk‐songs in their comps., from Renaissance times to Haydn, Grieg, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Bartók, Vaughan Williams, and others. by Cecil Sharp, Vaughan Williams, Maud Karpeles, Mrs Leather, Anne Gilchrist, Frank Kidson, and many others in Hungary by Kodály and Bartók, and similarly in other countries. the fear that with the advance of modern life the old customs were dying out led to a major campaign of song coll., in Eng. He was an important influence on other collectors and Cecil Sharp and Lucy Broadwood were among those who collected songs in his. Though he is mostly remembered for his hymn-writing and his archaeological studies, he considered his greatest achievement his folk song collection. Folk‐songs were generally found among the country‐dwellers, but with the increase of urbanization and industrialization they spread to the towns and factories. Baring-Gould died in 1924, a few days before his ninetieth birthday. Folk‐songs are songs of unknown authorship passed orally from generation to generation, sung without acc., and often found in variants (of words and tune) in different parts of a country (or in different countries). Springfield’s Max Hunter, folk music collector, featured in new book. Term covering folk‐songs and folk dances.
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